‘The Rise of Asian Americans’ Report Released by Pew Research Center

The Pew Research Center just released a new report, “The Rise of Asian Americans,” painting a “comprehensive portrait of Asian Americans, examining their demographic characteristics, social and family values, education, economic circumstances and more.”

The report finds that Asian Americans are the “best-educated, highest-income, fastest-growing racial group” in the country and also explores six subgroups: Chinese Americans, Filipino Americans, Indian Americans, Vietnamese Americans, Korean Americans, and Japanese Americans.

It’s encouraging to see reports with better data being conducted about Asian Americans. Last month, a poll on Asian American voter attitudes was released by the Asian American Justice Center and the Asian American Institute (members of the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice), and APIAVote.

Conducted by Lake Research Partners, the poll found that that Asian Americans are still largely untapped by candidates for office and their political parties. The first-ever poll of Asian American voter attitudes shows that close elections in states with significant numbers of Asian American voters like California, Florida, Illinois, Nevada and Virginia could go to the candidates who best engage Asian Americans, a demographic with increasing political clout.